I'm looking forward to meeting and fishing with you. It's a different world when you can fish seven days a week. For one thing you can avoid the weekend crowds of bass boats, jet skis, wake boats, water boarders, water skiers and pleasure boats. You can also pull up to a favorite brush pile without finding three other boats already fishing it.

I quit bass bass fishing over 50 years ago, when Bass Masters started and the ill mannered louts flooded the lakes trying to get rich from fishing for bass. Sadly when Crappie Masters started we started to see the same ill mannered behavior from crappie fishermen. Yes, I'm a cranky old man.

I chose Lake Washington due to it being the biggest lake in the area, with the most marinas for a fresh water lake. I have a 24' pontoon with aluminum logs and deck so I don't want to keep it in salt or brackish water due to corrosion if I can help it. I am no longer physically able to trailer a boat so I need to keep it on a slip on the lake.

Does Lake Washington contain rainbow trout and walleye? I've seen videos on YouTube of people catching crappie, rainbow trout and walleye there but they are not listed on the State's fish and wildlife department as being in the lake. I'm hoping they are present since I have not been able to fish for them since 1967, when I left the military and moved from El Paso.

My pontoon has Livescope so if there are any crappie in Lake Washington I will find them. But I admit it will be much easier if I have somebody local to tell me where to start looking for them. Plus I find fishing more fun when I have somebody to enjoy it with me.

I don't know exactly when I will arrive there as I am having some medical procedures done that might keep me here in Texas until mid-September. I will know later today after I will see my doctor. But i definitely will notify you when I know so we can plan a fishing trip or two together.